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Questions someone should ask Senior Management

TOP TEN. Questions someone should ask Senior Management. Number 10. How is EBMUD going to pay for Freeport? Not filling vacant positions? Defer Preventative Maintenance? On the backs of employees? By charging it?. Number 9.

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Questions someone should ask Senior Management

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  1. TOP TEN Questions someone should ask Senior Management

  2. Number 10 • How is EBMUD going to pay for Freeport? • Not filling vacant positions? • Defer Preventative Maintenance? • On the backs of employees? • By charging it?

  3. Number 9 • Why can’t the Walnut Creek Water Treatment Plant provide water to it’s own pressure zone? • Rumor has it that Senior Management changed the clearwell design for esthetic reasons (they lowered it) and now it’s too low.

  4. Number 8 • Maybe 84 years of experience isn’t enough… What did we learn from all of those trips to Australia? • Why would we want to use Yarra Valley as a model?

  5. Number 7 • Are the Micro-Turbines at the NAB working? • What about the Solar power at the Sobrante Water Treatment Plant?

  6. Number 6 • How will the ratepayers feel about EBMUD paying an employee two paychecks for the same job? • Someone who retires from EBMUD should retire, especially when we’ve already appointed a replacement.

  7. Number 5 • What goes better with an orange jumpsuit? Gucci or Prada? (Sorry this is for my Paris Hilton list)

  8. Number 4 • Why was the FY08 budget approved with a 3.0% wage increase when the February 2007 CPI came in at 3.1%?

  9. Number 3 • Why is Senior Management’s negotiation team offering a wage proposal that is not only below CPI, but less than what the General Manager and General Counsel received in January 2007? • Are the employees less valuable then management?

  10. Number 2 • Why isn’t CPI “Good Enough”? • Senior Management has told us that CPI is not sufficient to set rates, why should it be sufficient to set a wage increase? • Per the Bureau of Labor Statistics… • “The CPI frequently is called a cost-of-living index, but it differs in important ways from a complete cost-of-living measure…A cost-of-living index would measure changes over time in the amount that consumers need to spend to reach a certain utility level or standard of living”. CPI falls short of this measurement. • CPI excludes the cost of energy and home prices.

  11. Number 1 • Why would we ratify a contract that only includes takeaways?

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